Sam Evans
speaker
11,513 appearances
100 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Sam Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 100 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 32.
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There is a 52.4 kilowatt battery in the cheapest version.
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64 kilowatt battery in the mid-spec version and a 75 kilowatt battery in the longest range version.
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CLTC range is 725 kilometers on that 75 kilowatt battery or around 450 miles.
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But that's CLTC, not a realistic figure.
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The article didn't include, the articles where I found this information didn't include 10 to 80% charging time.
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So we'll have to wait on that.
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Ultimately, legacy automakers are still celebrating 90% efficiency, which is good.
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But Geely has clearly just moved the goalposts.
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And that's a good thing.
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This is going to force other manufacturers to continue pushing the efficiency of their vehicles as well.
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Eventually, we'll probably come up to something like 95% or 96%.
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I think that's probably the upper limit.
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But this is really fascinating to see how this sector is changing.
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And efficiency, you can see, doesn't come down to just things like lowering your ride height of your car, putting on smaller wheels, putting on more efficient tires, putting on aero hubcaps on your car.
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That's actually a really good thing to do.
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It gives you more range.
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Or reducing the size of your mirrors, putting on digital mirrors.
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There's so many different ways companies are trying to improve efficiency.
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This is just one of them.
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Let me know what your thoughts are.
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